Heidegger

I recently saw a movie with George C. Scott playing the main character,
about the life of Mussolini, as reported by his son, Vittorio. Mussolini was
very proud to use chemical weapons against Aybssinian “primitives”, in order
“to spread civilization” and build an Italian Empire. Scott (playing
Mussolini) says something like “we killed half a million to one […]

In article , Michael Eldred writes
>Cologne 29-Oct-2006
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>Philip Baker schrieb Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:08:37 +0100:
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>> In article , Michael Eldred > online.de> writes
>> >If one looks back to the heyday of speculative philosophy in German Idealism,
>> >and the sequence of -isms thereafter through positivism to so-called
>> >’analytical
>> >philosophy’ (analyticism?), it becomes apparent that […]

Cologne 29-Oct-2006
michaelP schrieb Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:51:22 +0000:
> > Cologne 28-Oct-2006
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> > michaelP schrieb Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:40:44 +0100:
> >
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> ME:
> > Nice!
> > For “eliminativist” one could substitute also “analytical philosopher”,
> > “positivist”, “logical empiricist”, inter alia.
> >
> > If one looks back to the heyday of speculative philosophy in […]

Cologne 29-Oct-2006
Philip Baker schrieb Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:08:37 +0100:
> In article , Michael Eldred online.de> writes
> >If one looks back to the heyday of speculative philosophy in German Idealism,
> >and the sequence of -isms thereafter through positivism to so-called
> >’analytical
> >philosophy’ (analyticism?), it becomes apparent that Heidegger’s diagnosis of
> >Seinsvergessenheit, even in […]

> Cologne 28-Oct-2006
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> michaelP schrieb Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:40:44 +0100:
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>> Ken’th:
>> > A duck went into a bar and asked for some crackers. The waiter said no. The
>> > next day he came into the bar and asked for crackers again. The waiter said
>> > no, again. The next day he came in […]

That Pete schrieb Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:35:55 -0700 (PDT):
>> — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:53:11 +0100 Bookwright
>> wrote:
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>> > Philosophy: the love of wisdom
>> > i.e. love
>> > wisdom
>>
>> Love, in the Heraclitean sense:
>> http://enowning.blogspot.com/2004/10/wha…
Some quotes on the subject from Plato (don’t have the line numbers yet):
‘The philosopher is in love […]

Cologne 29-Oct-2006
That Pete schrieb Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:35:55 -0700 (PDT):
> — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:53:11 +0100 Bookwright wrote:
>
> > Philosophy: the love of wisdom
> > i.e. love
> > wisdom
>
> Love, in the Heraclitean sense:
> http://enowning.blogspot.com/2004/10/wha…
>
>
ME: To say that philosophy is the love of wisdom is too non-specific. There is wisdom […]

In article , Michael Eldred writes
>If one looks back to the heyday of speculative philosophy in German Idealism,
>and the sequence of -isms thereafter through positivism to so-called
>’analytical
>philosophy’ (analyticism?), it becomes apparent that Heidegger’s diagnosis of
>Seinsvergessenheit, even in the metaphysical sense of forgetting the
>ontological
>difference, has its justification. “Seinsvergessenheit” can be rendered as
>’forgetting of being’, […]

In a message dated 28/10/2006 14:24:01 GMT Standard Time,
artefact at t-online.de writes:
Cologne 28-Oct-2006
Kevin Winters schrieb Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:12:52 -0700:
> I found the following in _What is Called Thinking?_, the first lecture
> Heidegger gave following his involvement with Nazism. The context is his
> talking about Nietzsche’s Ubermensch.
>
> “Nietzsche’s thinking gives […]

—– Original Message —–
From: “Bookwright”
>>> Obviously you dismiss the argument that the US itself is one of the
>>> main creators of turmoil on the planet, overturning democratically
>>> elected governments
>>
>> Which of the following three “axis of evil” leaders were democratically
>> elected:
>>
>> 1. Kim Jong Il
>> 2. Sadaam, with his 100% […]